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Charles Ray Wilson

Self-Storage Operating Performance in the Primary Markets: What It May Mean for Facility Owners

The self-storage industry is known for its ability to weather swings in the economy that negatively impact other property types. This article examines the operating performance of the primary self-storage markets consisting of real estate investment trusts and independent ...More
February 7, 2013 By Ray Wilson
Posted in Articles, Management
Is Self-Storage Now a Consolidation Nation? Real Estate Experts Discuss the Acquisition Trend

In recent years, ground-up development of new self-storage facilities has given way to industry consolidation, with the real estate investment trusts (REITs) and larger, private companies leading the charge. Self-storage real estate experts discuss the trend and what it ...More
November 11, 2012
Posted in Articles, Development, Real Estate
Using Direct Capitalization to Estimate Self-Storage Facility Value

Key self-storage brokers, property owners and property managers still use direct capitalization and discounted cash flow as primary tools of the income approach to estimating facility value. They use the sales-comparison approach as support. This article focuses primarily ...More
June 30, 2012 By Ray Wilson
Posted in Articles, Real Estate
Factors to Determining Self-Storage Investment Quality: Questions to Ask Your Seller and Broker

This article discusses factors that go into determining the “quality” of a particular self-storage investment as it compares to other (apparently) similar investments. The astute self-storage investor is aware of these subtle influences on value and understands how each ...More
February 25, 2012
Posted in Articles, Real Estate
Self-Storage and the Stock-Market See-Saw: Will Our Industry Be Affected?

The Down Jones Industrial Average plummeted 513 points yesterday in the worst stock sell-off since October 2008. Pundits cite fear over the U.S. economy and the European debt crisis as underlying factors. Are we staring down the barrel of another recession? And what, if ...More
August 5, 2011 By Teri Lanza
Posted in Blog, Finance
Self-Storage Data Expert Ray Wilson Joins Cushman & Wakefield

Charles Ray Wilson, the founder and principal of Self Storage Data Services (SSDS) and a recognized expert in the field of self-storage operating-performance data, has joined Cushman & Wakefield as a strategic partner in the company’s Self Storage Industry Group (SSIG). ...More
June 16, 2011
Posted in News
UBS Hosts Self-Storage REIT Summit in New York, Jan. 19

On Jan. 19, UBS Investment Bank will host a Self-Storage REIT Summit at its New York City office. Participants include chief executives from self-storage real estate investment trusts, who will speak as part of an international panel; self-storage valuation expert Charles ...More
January 12, 2011
Posted in News, Finance, Real Estate
The Road to Maturity: An Overview of Self-Storage Supply, Performance, Investment and Recovery

The current state of the U.S. self-storage industry reflects the continued economic uncertainty of the overall economy. Self-storage is in slow but steady recovery, and it appears it will be one of the first―if not the first―real estate sectors to pull through. This article ...More
December 27, 2010 By Ray Wilson
Posted in Articles, Management
Belgravia and California Self Storage Association Recap Owner’s Summit

On July 22, Belgravia Capital and the California Self Storage Association (CSSA) gathered self-storage owner-operators, real estate investment trust (REIT) executives and REIT analysts in Newport Beach, Calif., for the sixth annual Self Storage Owner’s Summit. ...More
August 12, 2010
Posted in News, Finance
Demand Outweighs Concerns for Self-Storage Customers Says SSDS June 2010 Report

Self Storage Data Services Inc., a Los Angeles-based provider of self-storage operating-performance statistics, released its rental-activity report for June 2010. ...More
July 28, 2010
Posted in News

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